Episode Synopsis "2006-04-08 Survivors of a slave culture"
SUMMARY: The ancestors of the people now living off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina were slaves. In the 1930s a play about the Gullah people by Dubose Heywood became America's great opera Porgy and Bess, in the hands of George Gershwin. Scholars claim that the Gullah people are the most homogenous group of African-Americans today, and studying the Gullah is providing a new slant on African-American history.